President Obama has recently said that he would like to see voting become mandatory. In other words, those who never took an interest in their country and how it is run would then be forced to state their opinion at the ballot box.

Joe Jackson, the great White Sox third baseman, was accused and finally convicted of "fixing" the 1919 World Series. Legend has it that a youngster asked his hero as Jackson was leaving the courthouse: "Tell me it ain't so Joe."